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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-01-22
HUMOROUS

Isn't revolving hight on the ooass
navy revolver.
\ last fascwell--A shoemaker giving
up his business.
.Yoked garments are much worn-By
oxen. They are gored
Many man asks a cifl to share hi,
-. ha, h ,,aln,
''s'A'ess '''' ''' = = '0'''''
III Just give you lew points re-
marked the paper OF pms as 'ne man SAL
on 1t.
SchoolmarmHto little Josie: mere
Is the North poleI AT the top OF the
map, marm.
The tailor and drcssmaker are the in
dividuals who dwell most on tho eternal
fitness Of things.
A scientist went out the other night
in a gale TO see what color the wind was
and found 1t blew.
The taiIors aud ,llcssnakers are the
individuals who dwell mos. on the ctcr-
nal fitness Of thing
Frequently the gentleman who LAYS
himself out to deliver n nice breezy dis
course is simply windy.
Brown-Did you enjoy yourself while
you were awayf 6reen-l ou bet DIDN'T
see blessed bill collector tho whole
! time
There is something | have just
dashed of, sail the poet as he Knocked
MS "ou'o oe-Son ID" OH TUE 'o''-
sep
Nerve looa IS "hVer'iseo' ih'S y
'iie A'h' oi 100" Tue 'iiah cats '" no wants
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nav ~ ''N' ''
tl''ie Girt Gazing win hoF mo'iiet
at nc" mouse "hefe me Walls were
not yet papefei' cSc'"''no' . " nat
id-hcA4ea honsc' hiaihiha.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-01-22
The Widows Pumpkins

AllD w luo" ul1phlllo.
1t was a brilliant October morning,
t4cgrass all sparkling with boar frost,
lie trees waving their red -jcweled arms
90 tho sunshine, and Eliakim El}is was
driving scrcnely down Hay Hill.
81 amt poet" thought he, ''but if
was | could write a lot of rhymes
about Ike this. Why, it's poetry all
the way through. And-eh2-how2--
what: Who's that:"
Il t"a- the Widow EIcpsy Hall, stand
In. at ,i' door Of her little one stored
house, and bcckoning with her long,
ham arms toward him. The farmer
ire" hi, rem
Hold on Sorcl." Ire apostrophizcd
his .l.ct. "You amt never in hurry,
"h'n want you TO be, 50 | calccrlate
,u ca" stand still bit now. Wal, Mis-
Ha.I, aAa; can dew for yc this morn
ing
I've got some pumpkin, that l want to
~l, sali the Widow lIepsy. "Drcfful
likely ones.
''lmnphins:' echoed E1iakim. "Why,
hIc-, Va soul, Mis- Hall, pumpkins is a
dre2 IN the market, just now. The
pumpkin crop has turned out powerful
good, tAank ProyidcHcc, and our folks
10 iccdm' en- ta the caows."
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-01-22

money - was her favorite axiom. And
Eliakim fe.t his heart sink within him
rs he faced hcrystern, uncon7promi-inc
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-04

. Brlen was not paid tor. It was paid
tor TO this city but the telegraph au-
thoritcs informed Mr.. O'Brien that
they would not forward 1t 10 Quebec
where Ae was unless II was prepaid
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-04

ritz ! ankle
found two shaw
pocket, lost by
at Padgitts par|
articles TO the Of
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-04

NEW YORK, May IL Prince Leo
pold and suite sailed this morning for
Europe on the seamer Elder
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
\ Fearful Railroad Accident.

4 dreadful accident occacred near
Tifin, Ohio, at four o'clock on Tuesday
morning. The fast train on the Balt-
more and Ohio Railroad, which lett
New York about 9 o'clock Monday for
Chicago, with 6ve coaches and four
sleepers, all well filed with passengers,
collided with an eastern bound freight
train.
The fast train was about fifty minutes
late and was running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. Passing Republic, a
small station, like flash, it rushed along
to curve one mile west of that town,
when suddenly the engineer saw the
freight train under full headway within
one hundred yards of him. Re at once
applied the brakes and reversed the en-
gine, but it did nc good, and the next
instant the crash came, telescoping the
coaches and piling them up on each
other. To add CONSERVATION to the
horrible scene fire broke out in the
smoking arand soon spread to the other
cars. Many were killed outright, while
others, wedged in among the broken
cars, were slowly consumed by the
flames.
The accident was due to a misunder-
standing of train orders. Another state
.uent is that the engineer of the freight
train was drunk. The whole number of
passengers Has is. The number Of killed
was 20, with many wounded.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
ANOTHER HAPPY JEHi.
a Connecticut Coachman Elopes With His
Employers Daughter.

Employers Daughter.
The village Of Redding, Conn, is
greatly excited over the elopement of
Miss Eunice Hill, daughter of the most
prominent and wealthy citizen OF the
place, with her fathers coachman, Fred
erick Hicks. Hicks is twenty-seven
years old and is said to be very dis
agreeable looking young fellow. 1t
appears that Hicks had been in the en-
ploy Of Mr.. Hill for about ten months
during which time Miss Hill fell desper-
ately in love with him. The young lady,
who is accomplished in every way, Of
faultless form and very beautiful, was
not only the belle of the village, but OF
all the neighboring towns. She taught
class in Sunday school in her fathers
church and had many admirers. Some
months ago the conduct OF Miss Hill
and the coachnan caused much village
gossip and it finally reached the fathers
ears. He was highly indignant and
threatened to kick his coachman from
his premises. But Miss Eunice begged
him not to, as it would create Il sensa-
ton, anu SOc llnaIiE Succce0eu IL AafIl4S
the servant retained Recently Hicks 5
conduct toward Miss Hill was SO objec-
tionable that the girls father said he
must go.
The coachman secured situation in a
livery stable, but kept mp communica-
ton with Miss Hill. Last week he came
! to 7,Ir. Hills residence and begged that
gentleman to take him back into his SER
vice. This 2Ir. Hill refused to do.
While the two men were in conversation
Miss Euniee quietly stole ont OF the
/ house and got into her lovers carriage,
as per arrangement. The couple drove
/; at once to Brevstcr,s, 4 neighbVring VII
! lage, where they were married without
delay. The father OF the CIR! is greatly
vnragcd over the affair.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
THE HAND OF GOD.
a Blasphemer Curses His Creator and is
Stricken with Paralysis.

-
DOUGLAS, GA, January al hope
that God may paralyze me- were the
words spoken by William Burkett. At
once his hands dropped to his side, his
legs refused to move and his eyes rolled
wildly around. His prayer was answered
as he stood parlyzed on the spot where
but few minutes before he was mag
nifcent type of physical manhood. He
tried to speak, but his tongue would not
move. Half a dozen men, who were
present, were rendered motionless by
the evident visitation of the hand Of
God. When they recovered sef-pos-
session they tenderly moved the afflicted
man to his residence, half mile dis
tant. When Miss Rhody Rurkett saw
the plight in which her father was
brought home she screamed and tainted,
and died few days later.
For years Mr.. Burkett had been the
ferryman at the Hawkinsville road cross
ing of the Ocmulgee River. He was Of
giant physique, with long gray locks,
and became especially noted because of
the brace of revolvers which be kept
strapped to his waist. He was a great
hunter, and the ferry being in the
midst of swamp, he was convenient to
an abundance of game. From those
who lived around him it is learned that
he was fearfuly profane. Whenever he
sighted game and was called off from it
by an alarm from the ferry he would
pour out such voley Of oaths as would
make the flesh Of ordinary men crawl
1t was while in one of these profane
spells that he cursed his Creator, and
wound up with the expression above
quoted.
The news soon spread through the
country, and scores of people called to
see the victim. He was at first COM
pletely prostrated, but subsequently was
enabled to take a few steps, when he
would fall. When spoken to he replies
in an inarticulate humble, and acts in
the most idiotic manner. The physicians
can ascribe no natural cause for bis
affection, but admit that it is visitation
of God. The preachers in the neigh
borhood have used the incident in their
sermons with great effect.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
to see man who drinks perform an act
that other men could applaud, unless he
commits suicide.
THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
What the State of South Carolina Has
Done for their support.

What the State OF South Carolina Has
Done for their support.
South Carolina furnished more soldiers
to the armies of the late Confederacy, in
proportion to her white population, than
any State in the Confederation of seced-
ing States, which is, however, only
natural, considering the fact that seces-
sion had its birth in her borders. She
has also done less toward relieving her
manned and wounded soldiers than any
Southern State. This is, perhaps, owing
to the fact that the State was longer un-
der the control OF the carpet-bag regime
than other States and that she was prob
ably the worst-plundered State in the
South under that plundering regime.
Soon after war, when the first Legisla-
ture met under Governor On, and De-
fore the enfranchisement of the blacks,
an Act was passed providing for the fur
nishing of artificial limbs for those of
her soldiers who had lost a leg or an
arm in the service. Under this Act dis
abled soldiers received from 800 to
5000 each, the necessary funds being
appropriated annually. It is to the
credit OF the carpet-bag Government
that this appropriation, about $4,000
annually, was never withheld
When the Government reverted to the
whites by the revolution of 1876 an at
tempt was made to provide pensions for
the disabled soldiers, but the State was
too poor, and the one-armed and one
legged Confederate soldiers in the Leg
islature were always the most strenuous
in opposing the measure. Every year
since 1876 haE-dozen or more Acts have
been passed appropriating specific sums
ranging from S25 to 5000 to MANNED or
disabled Confederate soldiers, each Act
being, however, a specific appropriation
for an individual named. No general
pension Act has ever been passed. At
the recent session, which closed on De-
cember "a, an Act was passed enlarging
the provisions of what is known as tho
Artificial Limb Act, and extending its
benefits to persons who have resided IN
the State for ten years, whether they
were natives or not. This is about all
that has ever bsen done for the manned
soldiers of the State
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

OF whom 20 are new Senators and -
are old ones. two of the new ones Serv-
ing uneSplred terms
Now, the bill of al others IN which
the farmers were most deeply interested,
and which they desired to have passed
most was that enlarging the board OF
agriculture and reorganiz,ng tie agrlcut-
tural department. This the Senate post
ooned, bv vote OF q to II, on the
fiinsv pretext, as voiced By Senator
Youmans, that they wanted more time
to investigate this important matter.
The April Convention had demanded It.
The November Convention hat: demand
ed it. The matter has been thoroughly
discussed for a year Or more N the
press. and charges of extravaganza and
of incompetence, or neglect oi duty on
the part of the board. proven. But these
Senatorial lawmakers alone needed
more time to investigate. Well, We
hope they will improve the two years
eleven of them have got before the next
election to study the matter ane pc pre-
pared to give good reasons Tor their
votes when asked. IF, indeed, your re-
porter be correct in saying the 'ASn-
cultural Senators were influenced by a
determination not to submit to Tliman
dictation," it will be a pitiful excuse for
having refused to comply With the
wishes of the farmers OF the State; and
an acknowledgment of having allowed
personal motives to govern Their action
rather than desire to lesislate for the
public good. No member OF the Gen
eral Assembly, either Senator OF Repre-
sentative, can truthfully say that | was
either obtrusiyc or dictatoriai N pre-
senting to them the measures asked by
the two Farmers Conventions, and it viii
be left to the farmers al over the State
to resent in proper way the imputatlocn
that Tllman alone constitutes the
Farmers movement
But if the agricultural Senators re-
sented 'sTillman dictation," what lnttu-
enced the other Senators? l Will now
proceed to show that the farmers IN the
Senate are not alone to blame for de-
ferring this bill. My cd friends, the
lawyers, took advantage OF the fuss
kicked up by Messrs. Ioamans and
Woford to plant sly dagger IN I'LL;
mans side and slap their agricultural
constituents who have joined the farm
ers' movement in the face. Ihls Is
shown by the vote, as follows:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

iSSG--It Surpt>seS aEy Nexr. Even of the
last Wonderful Decade.
IL its annual review OF tic industrial
progress Of the South, the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record says that 1856
was the most remarkable year in many
respects in the history of the Southern
States, and more accomplished for Tie
prosperity and progress Of the whole
South than ever before in any year
This is shown in tie enormous invest
ments OF capital in industrial enterprises
ard in the growth Of confidence among
Northern and European investors in the
stability Of the SoG:h's iron and other
manufacturing Interests.
The amount OF capital, including the
capital stock OF incorporated companies,
represented by new manufacturing and
mining enterprises organized or char.
tered at the South during 1886, incIud-
ing the enlargement of old plants and
the rebuilding of mills, aggregates Sl29,
22G,000, $50, $4,000 i'll 1855, divided
among States, rs follows:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
Total ;. sl29, ,226,OO0 S65, ,S12, 900

The development of iron manufactures
employs the bulk of this new capital.
Other interests as we'll as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list OF new enterprises organized
in the South during 1886 We're: IS iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 6S foundries
and machine shops, many of them Of
large size; l Bessemer steel rail mill, 25
miscellaneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc;
s stove foundries, "a gas works, 81 cleo
trio light companies, II agricultural i'm
plement factories, 174 mining and quar-
rying enterprises, 16 carriage and wagon
factories, 9 cotton mills, % furniture
factories, - water-works, 80 tobacco
factories, 80 -four mills, AS lumber
mills, (not counting small portable saw
mills,) including saw and planning mills,
sash and door factories, stare, handle,
Single, hub and spoke, shuttle-block
factories, etc.; in addition to which there
was large number of miscellaneous en-
terprises. One OF the most gratifying
features of the South's industrial
progress, says the Manufacturers Re
cord, is Il wide diversity Of new indus
tries that are developing al through that
section
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

Another mammoth cave is reported,
cilis time in Missouri. The first explora-
ton w.s only a partial one, but took in
several chambers and was prosecuted for
a distance OF quarter OF q mile, and still
other chambers and labyriMtls Of pass
ages lay beyond in several directions.
;G'nc sce,.ery is reported to be indesrib-
.ably beautiful, tie abundant staiactites
md stagialnites assuming I'll sorts Of fan
tastic shapes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

Thomas Stevens, who is making tour
OF the world on bicycle, and who few
days ago was supposed to be lost some
where in China, has been heard from at
Hong Kong. He reports some pretty
rough experiences, and expects soon to
be in San francisco.
One OF the finest and biggest nuggets
Of gold ever found in California is on
exhibition in San Francisco. It IS as
large as an ordinary derby hat and
weighs thirty-ive pounds troy. It is
worth S2G =n onnce and i@ almost pure
gold.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
Waste in the Kitchen.

Waste in the kitchen is very often great
from apparently trivial sources.
IN cooking meats, the water is thrown
out without removing the grease, or the
grease from the dripping pan is thrown
away.
Scraps Of meat are thrown away.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil.
Dry fruits are not looked after and be-
come wormy.
Vinegar and sauce are left standing in it.
Apples are left to decay for want Of
"sorting over.
The tea canister is left open.
Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by
mice.
Bones of meat and the carcass Of tu.-
key are thrown away, when they coui>.
be used in making good soups.
Sugar, tea, coffee and rice are care
lessly spilled in the handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and waste in
the water
Dish towels are used for dish cloths.
Napkins are used for dish towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Brooms and mops are not hung rp.
More coal is burned than necessary by
not arranging hampers when not using
the fire.
Lights are left burning when not used.
Tin dishes are not properly cleansed
and dried.
Good new brooms are used in scrub
bing the kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scrping
kettles
Cream is left to mold and spell.
Mustard is left to spoil in the cruise,
etc.
Vinegar is allowed to stand until the
tin vessel becomes corroded and spoiled.
Pickles become So led by the leaking
out or evaporation OF the vinegar
Pork spoils for want of salt, and beet
because the brine wants scalding.
Hams become tainted or filled with
verrnin for want of care.
Cheese molds and is eaten by mice or
! yermin.
Tea and coffee pots are injured on the
stove.
Woodeuware is unsc,.i9e,i and lett 70
warp and crack.
! AL &pprchensions touching tll. safety
nj stoves ,lsirr ,rnS, Iiy,, f1r. frf,al GRO 80,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

melted away, and only disorganlze
stragglers were coming back pursued by
moderate fire. Just then Wilcox S
brigade passed by us. moving to Picketts S
support. There was no longer anything
to support, and with the keenest pity at
the useless waste of life / saw them adj
vance. The men, as they passed us,
looked bewildered, as if they wondered
what they were expected to do, or why
they were there. They were soon, how
ever, halted and moved back.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

Done By the Legislature ~ the Eecea'
Session.
To the Editor OF the News and Courl-
er:: Your editorial in the The News aH>;
Courier of December u, headed "iRe
.aon Il Trouble, IS in the main j1st
3 ,priate. but at the same time :
- ding. For instance, speaking
81 the bills emanating from the Farmers,
Convention, and which have been either
postponed, amended out OF all shape or
slaughtered outright in the Senate, you
say:
.'Who is responsible We need not say,
The Senators viii be prepared, of course,
to explain their action to their CON
stituents when the proper time comes,
and they will doubtless be given the op-
portunitv. But whatever tnelc reason,
good or bad, the fact remains tnat the
quarrel of the farmers, II the, have any,
is with their own representatives. Ihe
non-agricultural members OF the Genera!
Assembly have been willing and ready,
as thev have abundantly shown, to grant
every request and adopt every plan
which the farmers should agree upon for
the advancement of their peculiar inter.
est, and to give to them the control OF
their peculiar affairs. The failure IS
chargeable to the men whom they have
selected and elected to cary out their
plans, and the settlement must be had
with those who are responsible for the
failure. %
You may rest assured that they wi!
be ssgiven the opportunity to explain
and that settlement will be lad with
some of them when again the farmers
get a chance. If the farmers move
ment," which has created such a sur
among the people, is really a demand OF
the masses for reform and the correc-
tion of abuses, and an expression OF
desire to see our rights as farmers re-
spected, it viii continue to grow and
spread, rather than dwindle and die, and
VIII have much to 10 with shaping the
future policy and politics OF this State.
But let that be as it may. l only set
out to show you that, while correct as to
the House, your editorial is calculated to
mislead when you say the farmers IN the
Senate are alone to blame.
And in order to make this clear l will
show the complexion oi our present Sen
ate as regards occupation. 1t is com,
,,oeoS oc fo1lov-s
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

total y, OF whom eleven are lawyers,
six are farmers, two are doctors, one IS 4
preacher and one is merchant.
This looks very much Ike the ':ol!.
sarchy Of lawyers, OF whom I nave
spoken SO often heretofore. did 1t? il
looks very much like the non-agrlcCl,
tural members Of the oen&te, At NJ
events. are willing to s;ieec at and spit
upon farmers efforts to u!;;2in control
Of our peculiar ;ti;;,,irS Il thc::X farm
er Senators controlled the fifteen noll-
AGRICULTURAL Senator's II tl,cir ::t!oil, It
is the first instance Oh record Of III sIgri-
cultural tail wagginS the legal dog. II
the farmers whose votes sent these nlc!l
to the Senate have any self-respect; Il
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

Michael Daritt has travelled over ten
Thousand miles, delivered forty-eight
speeches, and been married, All il ::
period Of less than ten weeks.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

The Lost Chord d"-I'hc wood missed
IRON Your pile overnight.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12

AL &pprehensions touching th,. safety
OF stoves using gasoline for fuel are SET
1t rest by the improvements observable
in the FRONT Eapor Stove. For fnrths:r
particulars, see advertisement
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
INDUSTRY OF TEE S2VTa.

The Marvellous Progress .s the Near
iSSG--It Surpa>ses aEy NaSr, Even of the
last Wonderful De"udc.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
LETTER FROM CAPT. TILL3IAN.

He Gives His Views on Certain Things
Done By the Legislature ~ the Hecea'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-12
DECISIONS on TEMPERANCE.

BY 7. Y. rowdcrly. G.. ". w. of the
knights of labor.